The clerk’s husband, Joe Davis, came by to check on his wife. He said she has received death threats but remains committed to her faith and is “standing for God.” As for himself, he said he believes in the Second Amendment: “I’m an old redneck hillbilly, that’s all I’ve got to say. Don’t come knocking on my door.”
He pointed to the gay rights protesters gathered on the courthouse lawn and said: “They want us to accept their beliefs and their ways. But they won’t accept our beliefs and our ways.”
My whole issue with this non-debate is not the content, but the violence and lack of empathy and effort at understanding. A person’s religion is their sense of self, their shelter in a cold and often cruel world. To point a gun at them and tell them to violate it is in some important sense to rape them.
Yes, I can and have condemned Christianity. But I also do not deny–because it would be foolish and wrong–that it has accomplished and continues to accomplish a lot of good in this world.
Nothing good comes from propaganda, and this whole thing has consisted entirely in propaganda.